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Description

Making The Case: like beauty, benefits are in the eye of the beholder. This course is suitable for chairs, trustees, chief executives and senior managers.

This one-day course looks in detail at an aspect of organisational management that often doesn’t get the attention it deserves – the idea and practicalities of benefits realisation. Conventional project-based management training rightly tends to focus on following the overall process and the balancing of inputs and outputs to deliver the objective.

But, whilst well-crafted objectives concentrate the manager’s attention, they are downstream to the questions of “why?” and “so what?”.

To answer these questions, you need to take a more strategic, future-focussed view and think about what you are trying to achieve and what needs, or is going, to change for you to be successful.

And, as in the adage “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, benefits realisation depends on the beneficiary – as part of your stakeholder management, it will be vital to identify who is the beneficiary, what they expect and how you are going to deliver their benefit. This will involve an understanding of influence, of how to overcome barriers and how perspectives can change over time.

As a result of attending this training, participants should:

Recognise and identify a benefit;

Better plan their delivery;

Be able to determine whether benefits have been delivered;

Have increased confidence in making the case.

ABOUT LEADERSHIP LINKS

Leadership Links Programme is a Programme of one-day national leadership courses delivered locally by Howard Exton-Smith NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

Who is it for? The Programme is especially designed for Leaders, Managers and Trustees and is delivered locally at a lower cost to be affordable and accessible. The Programme is designed to help you perform better to meet operational challenges today and enable change for tomorrow whilst offering support and learning to build personal resilience, confidence and capabilities.

Benefits Become an influential leader who can positively impact both organisational culture and enhance your ability to respond to rapid shifts in the environment. You will understand how to manage change and respond to resistance.

Costs The cost for each of the one-day courses is £75 per person. Book the full programme of 4 courses and receive a reduction 10%.

ABOUT HOWARD EXTON-SMITH, NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

Following a general management career in the private sector, Howard has over 20 years’ experience as a consultant, trainer and coach specialising in personal and organisational development, strategy and governance, and the management of change.

He works at the intersection of the private, public and third sectors to build capacity by strengthening individuals and organisations. Client-centred and flexible, he employs a collaborative style to solve problems and participatory techniques to foster learning and ownership.

From a background in psychology, marketing and professional services, Howard has extensive experience of delivering successful learning, development and capacity-building programmes with a range of audiences. Howard leads NCVO’s open-programme finance, risk and change courses and is also responsible for creating bespoke, in-company, courses when required.

Howard has lived and worked in Europe, Africa and North America and has been a Trustee and Chair of a UK charity. He holds an MSc in Management.